Mukh Mantri Punjab Cancer Rahat Kosh Plan Needs To Be Probed: Mohindra

The day media highlighted how patients were not obtaining benefits of the Mukh Mantri Punjab Cancer Rahat Kosh plan, Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal declared, “Very shortly, Punjab would commence the procedure for direct payment of relief to sufferers.”

The media people had exposed in the edition dated April 19 how hospitals take full amount from sufferers even when the plan involves benefits of Rs. 1.5 lakh maximum per patient for those who have no insurance cover or are not administrative employees.

“It is very sad that relief meant for the patients is misused by some private hospitals,” Badal stated, when inquired about the exposé, and claimed that rules had already been forwarded to the section concerned.

Now, Brahm Mahindra, the All India Congress Committee associate, stated that the higher authorities must looki into the said matter in order to check whether the funds released for Mukh Mantri Punjab Cancer Rahat Kosh plan are used properly or not.

Mahindra said that he talked to the state’s health minister in this regard.

He also said that till 14 March 2013, around 6924 people had received the benefit. The administration had released around INR 75,13,41,233 under the plan.

Mahindra also said that a report also came in that the amount released had not reached to the cancer patients.

He urged the administration to look into the matter.

He added up that the procedure to get fund needs to be simple and the amount should be increased to 5 lakh from 1.5 lakh.